Metadata Cheat Sheet
This document lists the most commonly used and required metadata fields for the Utah Digital Repository based on the Metadata Best Practices Guide, with examples.
| Required | Metadata Field | Examples |
| Y | Title | Drop initial articles, no period at end of title. First word and proper nouns capitalized, other capitalization is optional. Spy who came in from the cold |
| Y | Creator | Last Name, First name Fleming, Ian Bond, James; Craig, Daniel; Connery, Sean |
| Y | Subject | separate multiple subjects with ; Personal Digital Assistant; PDA
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| Y | Description | Use the abstract, if available. |
| Y | Publisher | entity that created digital object, could be university, publishing house, etc. Westminster College University of Chicago Press |
| Y | Date Original | date of publication 2006-06-08 |
| Y | Date Digital | If uploading a pdf, you can can find this by clicking on the file menu, then click on document properties to view the date the item was created. 2006-06-09 |
| Y | Type | Text (unless otherwise) |
| Y | Format.Medium | application/pdf (unless otherwise) |
| Y | Resource Identifier | reference URL
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| N | Language | eng (unless otherwise) |
| N | Relation | citation - for example the University of Utah uses APA format. |
| Y | Rights Management | © publisher name
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| Y | Contributing Institution | institution name Utah Valley State College |
| Y | Publication Type | journal article, presentation,manuscript, etc |
| Y | Metadata Cataloger | initials of person adding metadata AM |
| Y | Thumbnail logo | Logo supplied from your institution, upload when adding item to repository. |
Metadata cheat sheet adapted from Shona Dippie, Eccles Health Science Library.
